June 23, 2015
In 2013, a 60-foot-wide meteor exploded over Russia, and no one saw it coming. The Chelyabinsk impactor was relatively small by interplanetary standards, but the blast injured about 1,500 people and damaged 7,000 buildings.
June 22, 2015
NEW DELHI – If the Modi government has less than four years of tenure left, it had better start applying the 80:20 rule to decide what it will focus on to deliver maximum impact. Or it can kiss goodbye to re-election in 2019.
June 22, 2015
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: In comments that are certain to make Cricket Australia sit up and take notice, David Warner admitted that should the rumored rebel league table a $AUS 50million for his services, he would consider it.
June 22, 2015
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday ordered issue of notice to Tamil superstar Rajinikant on a plea by a financier seeking to initiate action against Kasthoori Raja, father of the actor's son-in-law.
June 22, 2015
Bengaluru: Karnataka government today landed in a controversy over a distorted map of India in an advertisement allegedly published by it in a Malaysian magazine, showing part of Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East missing from it.
The BJP, which pointed out the lapse, sought an explanation from the Congress government.
June 22, 2015
New Delhi: Yoga is now to be taught as a compulsory subject not only from class VI to X in central government run schools but also as a training module in teacher education programmes.
June 21, 2015
MUMBAI – Your Monday morning blues can get a lot worse with heavy rain forecast for the next 48 hours. With offices and schools shut, the city survived Sunday. Trains were running only a little behind schedule and as the rain eased, flooding was limited.
Waterlogging is a problem to the thousands of commuters who use the local trains
June 21, 2015
Brief Scorecard: Bangladesh 200 for 4 (Shakib 51*, Ashwin 1-32) beat India 200 in 45 overs (Dhawan 53, Mustafizur 6-43) by six wickets (D/L method)
The Bangladesh players get together after a historic series win, Bangladesh v India, 2nd ODI, Mirpur, June 21, 2015
June 21, 2015
NEW DELHI – India set two Guinness world records on Sunday with the Yoga mass session at Rajpath in New Delhi – one for largest number of participants and another for the most number of nationalities at a single event.
Army chief General Dalbir Singh and air chief Marshal Arup Raha perform yoga at Rajpath in New Delhi.
June 20, 2015
Mumbai – The death toll from India's latest incident of mass alcohol poisoning following the consumption of toxic homemade liquor rose to 90 on Saturday, Mumbai police said.
Indian family members carry the body of a victim of toxic home-made liquor consumption, during heavy rains in Mumbai on June 20, 2015
